Black Friday 2012

Holiday Shopping

A Lifeguard model stands outside the front door of a Hollister Co. clothing store, as consumers line up on the early morning hours Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 at the Glendale Galleria mall in Glendale, Calif. While stores typically open in the wee hours of the morning on the day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday, openings have crept earlier and earlier over the past few years. Now, stores from Wal-Mart to Toys R Us are opening their doors on Thanksgiving evening, hoping Americans will be willing to shop soon after they finish their pumpkin pie. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Shopping online? Check out these great deals with free shipping

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Holiday ShoppingConsumers shop early morning hours Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 at the Target store in the Glendale Galleria mall in Glendale, Calif. While stores typically open in the wee hours of the morning on the day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday, openings have crept earlier and earlier over the past few years. Now, stores from Wal-Mart to Toys R Us are opening their doors on Thanksgiving evening, hoping Americans will be willing to shop soon after they finish their pumpkin pie. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Shopping online? Check out these great deals with free shipping

Holiday ShoppingConsumer Ilda Telamid, far right, shops for discounted boots in the early morning hours Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 at the Glendale Galleria mall Macy's store in Glendale, Calif. While stores typically open in the wee hours of the morning on the day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday, openings have crept earlier and earlier over the past few years. Now, stores from Wal-Mart to Toys R Us are opening their doors on Thanksgiving evening, hoping Americans will be willing to shop soon after they finish their pumpkin pie. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Shopping online? Check out these great deals with free shipping

Holiday ShoppingConsumers line ouside the Abercrombie & Fitch clothing store, as consumers line on the early morning hours Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 at the Glendale Galleria mall in Glendale, Calif. While stores typically open in the wee hours of the morning on the day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday, openings have crept earlier and earlier over the past few years. Now, stores from Wal-Mart to Toys R Us are opening their doors on Thanksgiving evening, hoping Americans will be willing to shop soon after they finish their pumpkin pie. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Shopping online? Check out these great deals with free shipping

Holiday ShoppingA Lifeguard model stands outside the front door of a Hollister Co. clothing store, as consumers line up on the early morning hours Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 at the Glendale Galleria mall in Glendale, Calif. While stores typically open in the wee hours of the morning on the day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday, openings have crept earlier and earlier over the past few years. Now, stores from Wal-Mart to Toys R Us are opening their doors on Thanksgiving evening, hoping Americans will be willing to shop soon after they finish their pumpkin pie. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Shopping online? Check out these great deals with free shipping

Holiday ShoppingYoung consumers shop in the early morning hours at the GAP store offering a "Entire Store Up to 60% Discount" ad Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 at the Glendale Galleria mall in Glendale, Calif. While stores typically open in the wee hours of the morning on the day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday, openings have crept earlier and earlier over the past few years. Now, stores from Wal-Mart to Toys R Us are opening their doors on Thanksgiving evening, hoping Americans will be willing to shop soon after they finish their pumpkin pie. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Shopping online? Check out these great deals with free shipping

Holiday ShoppingConsumers shop early morning hours Friday, Nov. 23, 2012 at the Disney store at Glendale Galleria mall in Glendale, Calif. While stores typically open in the wee hours of the morning on the day after Thanksgiving known as Black Friday, openings have crept earlier and earlier over the past few years. Now, stores from Wal-Mart to Toys R Us are opening their doors on Thanksgiving evening, hoping Americans will be willing to shop soon after they finish their pumpkin pie. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) Shopping online? Check out these great deals with free shipping

Holiday ShoppingArthur Vardaman of Madison, Miss., carefully places a new television into the trunk of his car outside a Best Buy store in Jackson, Miss., Friday, Nov. 23, 2012, as shoppers still are lined up waiting to enter the store. A number of national retailers pushed the start of the holiday buying season by starting sales on Thanksgiving Day, but Best Buy waited until a minute past midnight Friday to open its doors. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) Shopping online? Check out these great deals with free shipping

Holiday ShoppingShoppers, at bottom, right to left, Karin Carlson, of Wichita, Kan., her husband Jason, and her cousins Tylar Neu and Christie LaFever wait in line to pay for items for purchase at Best Buy electronics store, after doors opened for a Black Friday sale that started at midnight, in Broomfield, Colo., early Friday Nov. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) Shopping online? Check out these great deals with free shipping